Train Your Dog to Distinguish Your Scent from Someone Else's - AKC HD

Lesson 2 in training your dog for AKC Handler Discrimination teaches your dog to not just search for a cotton ball, but to search for a cotton ball with your scent and ignore a cotton ball with someone else's scent. #baebeasdogtraining #paularatoza #pdxdogtraining
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But your scent is on both cans because you are not wearing gloves to keep your scent off

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I’m not asking my dog to sniff the can. I’m asking my dog to sniff the cotton ball. You see in the video she’s putting her nose INSIDE the can. The ONLY odor inside the can is the scented cotton ball. One with my odor, and one with someone else’s odor. If outside the can was an issue, my dog would not have successfully found the correct cotton ball. Being able to correctly identify my cotton ball vs someone else’s cotton ball tells you odor outside the can is a non issue.
Now, if odor outside the can is an issue, think about it. How would I put on the gloves? If I put the gloves on by myself, my odor is on the gloves, which leaves my residual odor outside the can. If I asked someone to help me put on gloves so my odor is not on the outside of the gloves, now my helper’s residual odor is left on the can because my helper’s odor is on the gloves. There is NO way for outside the can to be odor free. So instead, I train my dog to search the cotton ball inside the can.